Combined cane and flag



(No Model.)

E. GASH.

COMBINED CANE AND FLAG.

No. 477,359. Patented June 21, 11892.

'NITED STATES: Erica,

EDGARJGA$H3 or MAOOMB, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED CANE AND FLAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 477,359, dated June 21, 1892. Application filed March 1, 1892. Serial No- (NO 1110591) To all whom it may concern; eye formed at each end, which eyes fit loosely Be it known that I, EDGAR GAsH, a citizen around'the rod 2. This frame a, when furlof the United States, and a resident ofMaing the flag around the rod 7;, guides the flag comb, in the county of McDonough and State and prevents it from kinking when being inof Illinois, have invented a new and useful serted into section B of the cane. 55

Improvementin \Valking-Canes, of which the 0 represents the cane-head, which is confollowing is a description which will enable structed out of metal tubing. others skilled in the art to make and use the In the left end of the handle is constructed same, reference being had to the accompany. a whistle m in the usual manner. (See Fig.

[0 ing drawings, which form a part of this speci- 4.) The right end has a sliding tube 0, the 60 tication, in which outer end of which is capped and projects out Figure 1 is an elevation of the cane. Fig. sufficient to be grasped with the thumb and 2 is a sectional elevation of the lower section finger. This tube cby being either slid in or g of the cane, showing the manner of construcout changes the tone of the whistle to any detion and a concealed fiagattachment. Fig. 3 sired key. 5 shows the flag attachment reversed with the The operation is as follows: This walkingflag unfurled. Fig. 4 represents the head of cane is in particular adapted for patriotic and the cane, partly cutawayto-show the construcschool processions, and its use as a common tion. Fig. 5 is an end view of the guiding walking-cane is very obvious. The operator,

frame within which the flag is rolled. when wishing to make'a display of the flag 7 The object of this invention is to construct of his country, grasps the outer end of the a walking-cane principally for patriotic and ferrule s and draws out the flag attachment, school processions, and its novelty is herein- 'un'fu'rls the flag, then reverses the attachment after fully described, and pointed out in the and slides the lower end of the ferrule s into claims. the lower end of section B of the cane, (see Fig. 75

My improved cane is composed of two sec- 3,) which holds the flag in position for dis tions A and B. The upper section A is made play. Then reverse the cane and the whole of wood or other suitable material. The lower then becomes a flag-staff with the flag unsection B is made of metal tubing, and the furled. Then desired, the whistle can be two sections are rigidly attached together at blown upon, and by operating the slide 0 the 80 d. (See Fig. 2.) tone of the whistle canbe changed as may be In the tube which composes section B is desired. When the operator wishes to furl fitted a flag attachment,which is composed of the flag, the flag attachment is drawn out of a center rod 2' or flag-staff, which at the upthe section B. Then while one hand grasps per end has an ornament J of any suitable the guide-frame at and holds it stationary the 85 design that is desired. The lower end of the other hand turns the center rod 11, which rolls rod 11 is firmly secured in a wood or metal the flag tight around said rod 2', leaving the plug which is firmly secured in the lower end guide-frame on the outside, holding the flag of the metal ferrule s, the upper end of which in a suitable position for inserting into the 40 is open and extends above the plug, which section B,where the flagis concealed as before. 90 extension has slots 0. The slots allow the Having thus described my invention, what upper end of the ferrule to act as springs of I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters sufficient strength when pressed into the lower Patent, is end of section B to hold the flag attachment 1. Awalking-cane composed of two sections in place either when concealed, as shown in A and B, the section B being composed of a 5 Fig. 2, or, as shown in Fig. 3, when reversed metal tube in which is fitted a flag attachand the flag n displayed. The rod 6 at each inent consisting of a center rode, having an end is rigidly attached to the rod 1'. On this ornament J at the upper end, the lower end rod c the flag a is attached. being fastened within the slotted reversible a represents a guide-frame which has an ferrule s, the rod 6, rigidly attached thereto, 10c

and the guide-frame a, loosely fitted to the frame a, all extendingoutward from the cane rod '5 at each end, substantially as shown and when the ferrule s is reversed, subt-antially Io described, for the purpose set forth. as shown and described. 2. In a Walkin cane the combination of v 5 the tubular lower Section B, the slotted reversi- EDGAR GASH' ble ferrule 5, having rigidly attached a flag Witnesses: attachment consisting of the center rod 1', the M. T. PRICE,

rod 6, connected thereto, and the guiding T. J. PRICE. 

